Chapter Twenty Four: Instinct

Neerah

“You know, I love reading! Can I read books here in your office?” I ask, trying to hide my still extremely powerfully beating heart. God! He cannot hear it can he?!

I steal a look at his direction. I see a small smile appear at the corner of his lips and he shrugs. “Suit yourself” he agrees.

“I noticed that maids do not enter your bedroom. Who does the cleaning?” I ask, cringing inwardly at how I must have sounded. i hope he doesn't think that I am hinting at anything else.

I steal another look and foubd out that he has his head tilted to the side and I swear his grey eyes sharpened even more.

“So?” Is all he said.

“So, can I be the one to clean it for you? I worked as a nanny before. I clean their house sometimes when they let me stay over for the night” I explain.

“a human monster, a house girl and nanny?” He says it as if pondering it over. I cant decipher the layers to his tone though.

“Oh wow! That's me in one sentence!” I admit. And my heart beat slower again. My fraye